B-type star · blue-white star

Xi² Cet

Xi² Cet is a blue-white star in the constellation Cetus 193 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,838 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 58.18× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 193 years ago.

193 lybrightness mag 4.30B9III

Also catalogued as HR 718 · HD 15318 · HIP 11484

10,838 K

temperature

4.30

apparent magnitude

58.18× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

193 years

at light speed from Earth

1.88×

as hot as the Sun

58.18×

the Sun's light output

0.44

absolute magnitude

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Xi² CetB-type

Sky regionCetusthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cetus

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.